@HistorianZhang This businessman but tea. I bet he bragged about his $18 “Rothschild Mouton” until he realized. nypost.com/2020/10/23/cou…
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Michael K. Osta
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@MichaelOsta Well it's crashed back down to earth now so ...
It's just a slightly better than average factory cake
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You now can also have the privilege of lending out real money and getting paid back interest in tea of dubious quality
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@HistorianZhang Wow…$18 a gram. I doubt though how much an active market exists for it. Probably skewed by the vanity of a select group of buyers, and wonder how better it is compared to the RMB 2K per cake.
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@HistorianZhang Holy shit, what’s the unit? RMB 1.9M for a cake? Kilo? Tael?!
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Absolutely. One is the steward for an ancient institution, shrouded in mystery and the subject of conspiracies, the connection between mankind and the transcendent force that governs our world. And the other is very important to Catholics.
Molly Jong-Fast@MollyJongFast
I’m not convinced that threatening both Jerome Powell and the Pope is the move.
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Another 2.3% today. Like a clockwork.
Michael K. Osta@MichaelOsta
Death, taxes and Korean stocks go up 2-3% every day.
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Lawmakers are boomers. They enact boomer shit laws.
Charlie Bilello@charliebilello
A 25-year old married couple earning $150k will pay over $3k more in federal income tax for 2025 than a 65-year old married couple with the same income (note: assumes no social security - 65-year old couple is waiting to age 70 to get max benefit). This is a fair tax policy?
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This is masterful.
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
Stocks at all time highs. God Bless America
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The fact that China has a fertility crisis and simultaneously bans egg freezing by single women is an absolutely insane policy.
Ruxandra Teslo 🧬@RuxandraTeslo
It's a myth that egg freezing doesn't work. It works extremely well for women who freeze young. It has low success rates for women in their 40s and late 30s, when fertility has already declined significantly. - Women who freeze enough of their eggs in their twenties have the same success rate using those eggs later as they would have had using them fresh in their twenties: 85-90%. -Women generally freeze too few eggs and too late (median age: 37). This is why overall success rates reported in papers are low. - Women's fertility does not drop off rapidly after age 35. That's a myth caused by faulty data. The decline is earlier and more linear. - Clinics in Spain are significantly cheaper but just as good or better than British or American ones in success rates. I got my eggs frozen in Valencia last week. - Clinic choice matters a lot. Average success rates can vary between 25% to more than 60% probability of live birth per embryo transfer for the worst and best clinics, respectively. worksinprogress.co/issue/were-fre… @_revoluzia_ and I are both in our late 20s, and both decided to get our eggs frozen, so that we could definitely have the number of children we wanted, regardless of where life takes us. Recent technological improvements make egg and embryo freezing an effective 'fertility insurance'. We share our lessons from the process in a new article for Works in Progress.
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haha wow brutal
Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek)@magyarpeterMP
I have arrived at the Sándor Palace to meet the President of Hungary. @DrTamasSulyok is unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation. He is unfit to serve as the guardian of legality. He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model. Following the formation of the new government, Tamás Sulyok must leave office immediately.
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Short the market then go on CNBC crying that "hell is coming."
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_
Bill Ackman on how he made $2.5 billion by hedging and shorting stocks during March 2020 Worth a listen "There was a massive storm coming. We could see the storm, but everyone else was playing on a beach. We bought a credit default swap on the index, and over a 10 day period, we bought about $74 billion notional of this insurance. It cost us only $27 million. 10 days later, it became worth $2.6 billion. We took that money in March 2020 with the market down 30% and bought stocks"
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Man should never pay for steak or beer ever again in his life.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
New footage shows Arkansas principal Kirk Moore lunging at a school shooter, helping save students’ lives. A real hero
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At this rate, Zuck's AI splurge is going to create new Chinatowns in Mountain View and Palo Alto.
China Research Collective@CRC_8341
Tsinghua IIIS Assitant Professor, Wu Yi, has left China to join Meta Superintelligence Lab Known in China as one of the Four Berkeley Returnees Cofounder of Embodied AI startup Biansai Technologies Ex-OpenAI Berkeley PhD Tsinghua Yao Class undergrad IOI Silver Medalist
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It's funny how in 4 years Ukraine has become more important to Nato than Nato is to Ukraine.
Kateryna Lisunova@KaterynaLis
‼️ ZELENSKYY: Ukraine and Germany are working on a major drone deal, similar to the agreements Kyiv has signed with Middle Eastern partners. It’s expected to be the largest of its kind in Europe. “We're starting to develop this major foundational document, the Drone Deal. We agreed it would be between our two countries. Yes, it’s similar to what we discussed in the Middle East. But this is a separate document. Germany is a major partner of ours, so I'm confident we'll have one of the biggest agreements of this kind, at least in Europe. And our teams will work on the scope, the details, and all the timelines” - Ukrainian President during his visit to Berlin ok Tuesday, April 14th, 2026.
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The engagement with this Tweet is absolutely bonkers.
Governor Josh Shapiro@GovernorShapiro
Tonight as Yom HaShoah begins, we mourn the more than 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis. As Holocaust denialism continues to rise, it is more important than ever that we state loudly and clearly: the Holocaust happened. It was real, and we have a responsibility both to learn from this dark chapter of our history so we never repeat it and to combat the rising antisemitism we see around us. Here in Pennsylvania, we will continue to make sure students learn about the Holocaust in our classrooms, strengthen our hate crime laws, and create a Commonwealth where all people are safe and welcome. #NeverForget
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S&P 500 just turned green on the year because this is America! 🇺🇸
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This is getting more and more entertaining.
Masoud Pezeshkian@drpezeshkian
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex), I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah.
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